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Google Prepares Chrome Field Trial For Accelerated Video Decode On Wayland
Google is preparing a field trial with the Chrome web browser of accelerated video decoding under Wayland/Linux as a step toward rolling it out by default for a better video playback experience on the Linux desktop with Wayland-based environments.
This field trial is in reference to this bug report for enabling video decode acceleration on Linux/Wayland. The bug report was originally opened in 2022 by an Intel engineer for exposing VDAVideoDecoderor and VAAPIVideDecoder. Here's to hoping the AcceleratedVideoDecodeLinuxGL field trial goes well and Google Chrome/Chromium enable GPU accelerated video decoding by default under Wayland soon.
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